"Bring 100 experts into the room, and you'll get 100 different opinions."
At SlatorCon London 2026, Appen's @SergioBrucc discussed why domains like coding, STEM, healthcare, legal, and HR require expert judgment, and why expertise must span cultures, languages, and modalities.
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An agent can pass a benchmark and still fail the test.
For Laguna S 2.1, @poolsideai evaluated full trajectories, not just final scores. @AppenResearch worked with Poolside on aspects of the reward hacking detection used during the evaluation process.
I had a great time joining Karla Heredia and @SergioBrucc on The Data Layer by @AppenResearch.
We covered:
• The future of AI architecture
• Why transformer scaling is reaching its limits
• The importance of long-context reasoning
• Why robotics will need better algorithms
• Why better algorithms will out perform bigger models
Give it a listen. Link in comments.
While the frontier labs race towards bigger models and more compute, we believe the next wave of AI will be defined by more efficient architectures.
Our Co-Founder & CTO, @alex_whedon, recently joined Karla Heredia and @SergioBrucc from @AppenResearch to discuss why architecture is becoming the defining factor in the next generation of AI systems.
A few topics explored:
→ Why transformer models become increasingly inefficient as context grows.
→ Why today's AI agents spend too much time managing context instead of reasoning.
→ How long-horizon memory will change enterprise AI and autonomous agents.
→ Why independent benchmarking is critical for evaluating long-context models.
→ How long context allows developers to simplify RAG systems by reducing chunking, retrieval complexity, and manual orchestration.
A great conversation on where foundation models are headed next.
Watch the full discussion. Link in the comments.
On this day in 2002, 19 years ago, Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire were first released.
These games started the third generation and introduced 135 new Pokémon. It told the story of you stopping Team Aqua or Team Magma
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Five years ago my boss, mentor and friend #SatoruIwata passed away. His words and creations touched so many of us. I continue to think about him every day.
Favorendo i pagamenti elettronici causa Covid dovremmo fare come in nord Europa: mi porgi il pos e io pago contactless.
Se mi prendi la carta dalle mani, come è consuetudine in Italia, è meno utile.
Qui finisce il mio ted talk, grazie a tutti, viva la mamma